[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 69 (Thursday, May 22, 1997)]
[House]
[Pages H3173-H3174]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




           DEMOCRATS WILL BE WATCHING THE BUDGET FOR AMERICA

  (Ms. DeLAURO asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Ms. DeLAURO. Mr. Speaker, yesterday in the wee hours of the morning 
this body passed a balanced budget resolution. The plan, please 
understand, provides a rough blueprint. Now we get the opportunity to 
work out the details of this budget.
  As we head into the process, Democrats are going to be watching 
carefully to make sure that this budget gives every, every working man 
and woman a shot at the American dream, and the right to a quality 
education has always been an essential part of that dream. So, the 
Democrats are going to be fighting to make sure that

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this budget does the right thing for American families.
  Getting young children ready to learn with strong investments in Head 
Start and an early start, looking at educational standards so that 
American children can read and write and compute, boosting school 
construction and repair initiatives so our kids are not sitting in 
crumbling schools, and helping families to afford college and 
vocational training through getting tax relief, and larger Pell grants. 
We are going to be watching the tax relief package very closely so that 
the richest 1 percent of Americans are not the beneficiaries, but that 
in fact working Americans, small businesses and small farmers are the 
beneficiaries. That is where the Democrats stand, for working families.

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